#old computing

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Tape Backup Systems | Tallgrass Technologies

BYTE Magazine, July 1988

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Today's old computer is the Commodore PET!

The Commodore 2001 released January of 1977, and the Commodore 4032 released 3 years later. The 4032 stood for the 40 character display, and the 32K RAM memory. They were initially named to capitalize on the 'Pet Rock Fad' of the mid 70's. One of the worst (harsh, I know </3) aspects of the OG 2001 model was the keyboard, whose keys were small and hard to click on. (Chiclet keyboard) Look at this thing!

This was thankfully fixed in the 4032 model :-)

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Life Style 95′

[retro-retribution]

CLUB Mono Systems

BYTE Magazine, June 1988

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Today's old computer is the Apple III!

Announced during May's National Computer Conference and released in November of 1980, the Apple lll (also called the Sara or the Apple 3) was released as an improvement of the Apple ll line. It had twice as much memory and ran twice as fast! This, however, doesn't mean it sold well. Due to problems with their (lack of) fans that led to overheating, and their real-time clock failing continuously, it didn't sell as well as Apple would've hoped. And while it did sell relatively okay, it's been kind of lost in obscurity for a while now.

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Today's old computer is the IBM 5120!

Released in February of 1980, the IBM 5120 is, to this day, the lowest-priced IBM computer! It won 2 industrial design awards and was critically acclaimed, from what I can tell. However, there's not much info on them, unfortunately :(( IBM's website has been deleting a lot of their webpages documenting their older models. Cowards! Shame!